Legal News

The Indiana Court of Appeals affirmed the finding of a trial court that a daughter did not repudiate her father following
a fall out over a car, so her father was required to continue paying her post-secondary educational expenses.

Although the recently amended sentence-modification statute now applies to an inmate seeking to revise his sentence, the Indiana
Court of Appeals affirmed the denial of Ivan Vazquez’s petition due to untimely filing.

Former Indiana Chief Justice Randall T. Shepard, the longest-serving chief justice in Indiana, is the recipient of the 2015
John Marshall Award, named after the longest-serving chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

The Indiana Supreme Court will decide whether an elementary school principal fired for having a consensual relationship with
a teacher will be allowed to continue his breach of contract lawsuit. That case is one of two the justices accepted on transfer
last week.

The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed Monday that a New Jersey inmate who filed a retaliation lawsuit against officials
at an Indiana prison while he was housed there was not disadvantaged when the judge denied his request to be transported to
Indiana for the trial. The judge instead ordered he appear by video conferencing.

An Indianapolis attorney and ex-judge working as a Shelby County public defender has been charged with three counts of sexual
misconduct and one count of official misconduct after he was accused of inappropriately touching inmates at the Shelbyville
jail. Authorities said one instance was recorded on video.

An Indiana judge rejected a defense motion Monday for a mistrial over alleged prosecutorial misconduct in the case of a man
accused of using natural gas to cause a house explosion that killed two people and gutted an Indianapolis neighborhood.

Angie’s List Inc. has filed a federal lawsuit against online goliath Amazon.com, charging the company stole service-provider
lists and other proprietary information in its quest to build a direct competitor, Amazon Local.

A man ticketed for a traffic violation and speeding is not entitled to post-conviction relief or relief from judgment, the
Indiana Court of Appeals ruled Monday. Post-conviction relief is only available when someone has committed a crime.

The Indiana Court of Appeals upheld a teen’s adjudication for carrying a handgun handed down after police arrested the
occupants of the car he was riding in after smelling burnt marijuana during a traffic stop. The judges unanimously held the
officers had probable cause to arrest the car’s occupants, including the teen.

A former Indianapolis firefighter has sued two drug companies, saying they failed to act on reports that a medication she
was prescribed for restless leg syndrome causes compulsive behaviors such as gambling.

The Supreme Court of the United States ruled Monday that a 66-year-old program that lets the government take raisins away
from farmers to help reduce supply and boost market prices is unconstitutional.

An Indianapolis lawyer who pleaded guilty more than six months ago to four felony counts of securities fraud from a Hamilton
County real estate Ponzi scheme was suspended from the practice of law Thursday.

The report released Friday by the American Bar Association Task Force on the Financing of Legal Education calls for enhanced
law student debt counseling, wider collection and publication of law school financial data, and innovation at law schools
to lower costs for students while maintaining sound educational programs.

A trial court did not err when it concluded that a community foundation which took over acting as trustee of a charitable
trust will have its fees capped at 1.5 percent of the trust’s annual assets, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled Friday.

The Indiana Court of Appeals has ordered a trial court to send a corrected notice to the Bureau of Motor Vehicles that shows
judgment was only entered on two of the four charges a man was convicted of related to his speeding in Brown County. The judges
also suggested that the BMV update its form to avoid future confusion as shown in this case.

Finding that an Indianapolis homeowners association did not make any cognizable claims using the Form 133 appeal procedure
to appeal assessments on its common area land, the Indiana Tax Court affirmed the dismissal of its petitions to correct error.

A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a class-action fraud lawsuit against Angie's List Inc., concluding plaintiffs failed
to show that sharp cuts to membership fees the company rolled out in 2013 demonstrated the inaccuracy of executives' prior
claims about its business model and caused the stock price to fall.

The Indiana Court of Appeals upheld the decision to grant a variance to a company seeking to build an upscale dog and cat
boarding and day-care facility on the northwest side of Indianapolis. A hotel located next to the property objected, fearing
noise from the animals would deter business.